Into the limelight: in settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood
Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, masterfully play with the slippage between the real and the fictional
The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer.
That's a wrap: critics Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye join Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup
Everybody together: the two filmmakers discuss the challenges of producing a multifaceted portrait of an anarchist Zone to Defend community in rural France
Answering the call: the acclaimed British filmmaker speaks about his latest feature, his first in six years, which reunites him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Bread and roses: the two directorial pairs behind Northern Lights (1978) and Union (2024) discuss the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power
Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years
